Locus Bestsellers, August
The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus by Dan Abnett (Black Library).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 12 | 1 |
| 4) | A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey) | 3 | 3 |
| 5) | Five Broken Blades, Mai Corland (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 7 | 5 |
| 7) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 26 | 4 |
| 8) | House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 5 | 6 |
| 9) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 2 | – |
| 10) | The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 87 | 1 |
| 2) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 34 | 2 |
| 3) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 42 | 3 |
| 4) | Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 47 | 10 |
| 5) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 54 | 8 |
| 6) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 11 | 6 |
| 7) | American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 47 | – |
| 8) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 59 | – |
| 9) | The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) | 13 | – |
| *) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 17 | – |
| *) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 28 | 4 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 3 |
| 2) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 22 | 5 |
| 3) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 25 | 2 |
| *) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 56 | 1 |
| 5) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 18 | 7 |
| 6) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 9 | 8 |
| 7) | Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 8) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | – |
| 9) | A Stroke of the Pen, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, Rebecca Thorne (Bramble) | 1 | – |
| *) | What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus, Dan Abnett (Black Library) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence, Rafał Kosik (Orbit US) | 2 | 2 |
The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo’s historical fantasy, moved to the top of the list, with a substantial lead over our second-place finisher, Peter S. Beagle’s I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons. Our new runner-up was Lake of Souls (Orbit US), Ann Leckie’s new short fiction collection. We had 59 nominated titles, up from 54 last month.
The top of the paperback list remained static for the third month with Dune and Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert leading the list in first and second place respectively. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-three titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 57 titles.
Sarah J. Maas dominated the trade paperback list with all five of the books in her A Court of Thorns and Roses series making an appearance. A Court of Frost and Starlight came in first, followed closely by A Court of Mist and Fury. There were no new runners-up. The trade paperback list had 67 nominated titles, up from 62 last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list only two books made our list with Dan Abnett’s Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus taking a slight lead over Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik. There were no runners-up. We had 22 nominated titles, up from 16 last month.
Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Book Moon (MA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: May 2024
Note: book titles and covers on this page link to IndieBound, a network of independent booksellers, such as those that contribute to this list.
See this listing and more like it in the August 2024 issue of Locus.
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